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This video contains three short 15- to 20-minute episodes
of The Three Stooges: Wee Wee Monsieur, Pardon My Clutch, and
Fiddlers Three. All are in black and white.
The video opens with Wee Wee Monsieur, in which the Three
Stooges are starving artists scraping for money. They accidentally
wind up in the French Foreign Legion and are put in charge of
guarding their Captain, with the expected results. In their attempt
to rescue him, they find themselves in the local bad guy's harem
and dress up as harem girls to escape detection. About 14 minutes
into it, the harem girls (including the three new additions)
do a dance. The Stooges appearing in this video are Larry, Moe,
and Curly. It was filmed in 1937, and interprets the harem in
a 1937 Three Stooges kind of way. It's definitely a scene worth
showing at a video party for belly dancers. Total length of this
segment is 17 minutes.
The second short is Pardon My Clutch, starring Larry, Moe,
and Shemp, and was made in 1947. The story opens with Shemp feeling
sick. His doctor pulls a bad tooth with the expected Three Stooges
level of difficulty. They decide to go on a road trip in a clunker
vehicle, and loading it up with camping supplies offers many
additional opportunities for the usual Three Stooges humor. In
this story, the Three Stooges all have wives, and trust me when
I say these couples richly deserve each other. I have to admit
I was a bit bored with this segment and found myself waiting
for it to be over. It was 15 1/4 minutes long.
The final episode, titled Fiddlers Three, stars Larry, Moe,
and Shemp, and was also made in 1947. The Three Stooges here
are living in medieval times, in the nursery rhyme world of Coleslaw-vania.
They are troubadours to Old King Cole, and he's definitely a
merry old soul, at least until his daughter the princess is abducted.
Naturally, the Three Stooges decide to rescue her and have adventures
along the way. I enjoyed this one, partly because the Three Stooges
were singing assorted nursery rhymes (Jack Be Nimble, Miss Muffet,
etc.) put to music with suitable sight gags to accompany them,
and it was humorous to see them prancing about in medieval garb.
You Will Probably Like This Video If
- You would enjoy seeing the Three Stooges dressed up as harem
girls and dancing for the lord of the harem.
- You would enjoy seeing the Three Stooges dressed up as medieval
troubadors singing nursery rhymes.
- You're a passionate fan of the Three Stooges.
You Probably Won't Care For This Video If
- You've outgrown the Three Stooges and their slapstick humor.
In Conclusion
I've mostly outgrown the Three Stooges, and many of their
episodes (like Pardon My Clutch) just don't make me laugh the
way they did when I was 12 years old. I guess that's not surprising!
But when someone else showed the harem scene of Wee Wee Monsieur
at a video party, I couldn't resist buying a copy for myself,
and it was a fun surprise to discover that I also enjoyed Fiddlers
Three.
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